The cast also features John Bolton as theatre critic Daryl Grady, Michael X. Martin as stage manager Johnny Harmon, Michael McCormick as nervous investor Oscar Shapiro, Noah Racey as lead dancer/choreographer Bobby Pepper and Megan Sikora as aspiring dancer Bambi Bernstein. Additional cast members will be announced shortly.

Set in 1959's Boston, Curtains finds itself at a pre-Broadway tryout of a new musical where the "talent-free leading lady... dies on opening night during her curtain call." The entire company of Robbin' Hood (a Western musical version of the Sherwood Forest heroic tale) — including the producer (Monk), the songwriters (Danieley and Ziemba), the director (Hibbert), the actors, an understudy (Paice) and the stage manager — are possible suspects, and each has a motive to be sorted out by a local detective (Pierce), who becomes stage-struck and "finds himself just as drawn toward making the show a hit, as he is in solving the murder."

Curtains marks one of the last collaborations by one of the longest-running songwriting teams in Broadway history — composer Kander and late lyricist Ebb (Cabaret, Chicago, Zorba, The Rink, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Woman of the Year). Their The Visit was produced by The Goodman Theatre in Chicago but did not move to a New York run. Ebb died in 2004.

Holmes won three Tony Awards in 1986 for his Broadway musical The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and from 1996 to 1999 he was the creator and writer of the television series "Remember WENN" on American Movie Classics. His pop songs include "The Pina Colada Song."

Peter Stone, who died in 2003, won three Tony Awards for his librettos for Titanic, Woman of the Year and 1776.